Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak had his introductory press convention at group headquarters in Renton on Tuesday. He’s Seattle’s third OC in as many seasons following the respective departures of Shane Waldron and Ryan Grubb. For good measure, Kubiak additionally introduced over his New Orleans Saints assistants John Benton and Andrew Janocko to educate the offensive line and quarterbacks, respectively.
Kubiak mentioned rather a lot over the span of the 30-minute presser, however I’ll spotlight essentially the most notable quotes and omit as a lot coachspeak as I can. As an illustration, Kubiak preached the worth of stability on offense and needing to win multiple approach. You’ve heard that quote 10,000 occasions from many various coaches and coordinators. Listed here are the nuggets which might be both new bits of knowledge or one thing you possibly can interpret a bit of bit extra deeply.
All quotes are courtesy of Seahawks media, which gives these transcripts.
Why the Seahawks job was so enticing to Kubiak
“Primary was having an opportunity to educate with Mike (Macdonald). To be on a group that’s coached with a dang good protection as a result of you know the way highly effective that’s. We would like to have the ability to contribute to that and play complementary soccer with them. Geno Smith, DK Metcalf, Jaxon (Smith-Njigba), Charles Cross, the checklist goes on. There are quite a lot of actually dang good soccer gamers on this roster that I’d love to educate. I need to be part of serving to their careers and serving to them so we will win as a group. I feel the personnel, the teaching employees right here, John Schneider, the status the Seattle Seahawks have as a first-class group. That’s simply widespread information across the NFL.”
Fullbacks are again on the menu in Seattle
“[I] actually love enjoying with a fullback like being in 21 and 12 personnel. Once more, that’s going to come back right down to the power of our gamers who we now have on our roster and let’s use the most effective 11 on the market, let’s get the 5 finest eligible deployed out into the route scheme. So these are issues we’re engaged on proper now, who that’s going to be, however we’ve obtained to adapt as coaches to our greatest gamers on the roster.”
“We’re going via that course of now with John (Schneider) and Mike (Macdonald), however I feel we’re going to check out all these issues. I’m excited concerning the guys we do have on the roster, we are going to play tight ends within the fullback place for certain, however that’s a course of proper now.”
Why he introduced in Andrew Janocko as quarterbacks coach and John Benton as offensive line coach
“I’ll begin with coach (John) Benton. If our identification goes to be a operating soccer group, it begins with coach Benton and his strategy. Simply actually impressed along with his means as a instructor, primary. He’s a wonderful instructor. The best way he runs the room, holds his guys accountable. I’ve simply seen the best way he leads males and his schemes are glorious. Andrew Janocko, I’ve been with him at two completely different stops, one other good instructor. These are the issues we’re searching for in our teaching staffs, nice academics and guys that may encourage. Andrew Janocko is a extremely good instructor. I’ve seen him do it with Kirk Cousins, with Derek Carr, and seen him relate to the youthful gamers like Spencer Rattler and develop these guys. I’m actually grateful for Mike (Macdonald) and John (Schneider) for letting us carry these guys right here and to get us began faster.”
The important thing to being good within the crimson zone, an space the Seahawks have struggled beneath Geno Smith
“I feel you’ve obtained to be glorious on first and second down. Third down, third and eight from the crimson zone isn’t an actual excessive share for lots of groups, so that you need to be aggressive to attain on these base downs. After which when you get to the third down, you’ve obtained to have a quarterback that’s an elite determination maker and an elite scramble drill participant, that all the time helps. So I feel we’ll emphasize many issues and the drive in your base downs is all the time a superb place to begin.”
How Kubiak views Geno Smith as a quarterback
“I feel Geno’s (Smith) robust as nails. I feel you have a look at the man within the fourth quarter and he goes and wins soccer video games. In order that excites me. That fires me up. I’ve watched his profession, finding out him extra now than I ever have earlier than. However you consider a man that’s been via quite a lot of adversity, the man that’s been knocked off the excessive horse and needed to claw his approach again into the starter’s function after which he comes again the final two years and wins extra video games within the fourth quarter than anyone within the NFL. That’s a man that I need to coach.”
How he believes he’s advanced his offensive scheme
“I can simply say that studying it from my dad and attending to be part of that offensive employees in 2016. After which being round guys like Kyle Shanahan, being in Denver with Justin Outten operating an identical scheme, related verbiage. Yearly you’ve obtained to maintain evolving and finding out the league and altering your ideas up a bit of bit, however the fundamentals, they’re not going to vary. I feel that’s the factor that we now have to harp on the gamers is being essentially sound, and all of the bells and whistles will come. However, crucial factor is that we get good on the elementary stuff, throwing and catching and blocking. It doesn’t matter what we do schematically, it all the time comes right down to that and being good at that.”
How he plans to adapt his scheme to the Seahawks offense
“I feel it’s necessary to determine a approach of doing enterprise right here. We’re going to begin with that being an outdoor zone, however clearly we’re going to include hole schemes, inside zones, pin and pull. We’ve obtained to do what our gamers do finest. So, we now have a philosophy that we consider in, a mode that we consider in, however you’ve obtained to have the ability to win multiple approach, like we mentioned. So, we’ll begin with the basics operating off the ball, after which we’ll get to know our guys. We higher do what they do finest, or else we’re not going to love the outcomes.”
Watch the entire press convention replay within the video beneath:
